The Courage To Aspire

A twelve year old boy turned on a switch and watched light flood his dark classroom—in a town where nobody had ever seen electric light before, he shouted that he wanted to become an electrical engineer when he grew up. Chuks I. Ndukwe’s innocent utterance seemed little more than a fantasy because his family could not fund his education beyond primary school. Suddenly everything changed; his teacher helped him gain admission to tuition-free technical high school where he won a scholarship to a t